Droid owners don't have a 'real' version of Android. Hero/Eris owners don't have the latest version of Android.
The Verizon/Motorola/HTC/Android/Droid/Sense amalgam clustercuss is just the ticket for Apple to dominate the category for years to come. Or at least until Google releases the 'real' Android. Or is that the 'real' Droid.
@Ariel Bender Don't be so quick to dismiss the competition just because you foolishly use a version number as an indicator of success. "Real" OS or not, the devices are very real and represent a level in consumer technology that you know Apple will be looking to challenge. The appreciable amount of diversity in the Android (and WinMo if you really wanted to take it there) handset portfolio is a welcome reality to those of us who not only like our phone needs catered to, but also don't want to carry the same phone as the person standing next to them, or the person next to them. If anything, this will serve as a wake-up call to Apple to realize that diversity can be great model for success. But you see the world through iPhone colored glasses, so I guess you wouldn't really notice that
@JDubbs115: Yeah, as a mobile app developer there's nothing that makes me happy than trying to sort out a clustercuss because the company (Google/Microsoft) is in panic mode and can't keep partners inline with a single unified platform.
FYI: "..but also don't want to carry the same phone as the person standing next to them..." Uh, you're no better, smarter or different than anyone else because your phone is different/jailbroken. Ass clown.
@Ariel Bender The iPhone's "exclusivity" and "unified platform" is what makes it so unappealing to me. It wouldn't make much sense for Android to be exlusive to one phone and/or one carrier, one version, one unified platform - because it would completely dissolve their "open development" platform. Also, phones like the G1 which is the original Android phone, wouldn't be able to handle 2.0 like the DROID does. So that's why it took a few weeks for other Android phones to receive updates. The iPhone is one phone, one network, one OS version. Android is across multiple carriers, phone manufactures. Rethink the logic of your statements.
HP's Jon Rubenstein told us that his company wanted to veer in a new direction, and veer it surely did -- the HP Veer 4G will arguably be the smallest fully-functional smartphone on the market when it goes on sale May 15th.
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Droid owners don't have a 'real' version of Android. Hero/Eris owners don't have the latest version of Android.
The Verizon/Motorola/HTC/Android/Droid/Sense amalgam clustercuss is just the ticket for Apple to dominate the category for years to come. Or at least until Google releases the 'real' Android. Or is that the 'real' Droid.
@Ariel Bender
Don't be so quick to dismiss the competition just because you foolishly use a version number as an indicator of success. "Real" OS or not, the devices are very real and represent a level in consumer technology that you know Apple will be looking to challenge. The appreciable amount of diversity in the Android (and WinMo if you really wanted to take it there) handset portfolio is a welcome reality to those of us who not only like our phone needs catered to, but also don't want to carry the same phone as the person standing next to them, or the person next to them. If anything, this will serve as a wake-up call to Apple to realize that diversity can be great model for success. But you see the world through iPhone colored glasses, so I guess you wouldn't really notice that
@JDubbs115: Yeah, as a mobile app developer there's nothing that makes me happy than trying to sort out a clustercuss because the company (Google/Microsoft) is in panic mode and can't keep partners inline with a single unified platform.
FYI: "..but also don't want to carry the same phone as the person standing next to them..." Uh, you're no better, smarter or different than anyone else because your phone is different/jailbroken. Ass clown.
@Ariel Bender The iPhone's "exclusivity" and "unified platform" is what makes it so unappealing to me. It wouldn't make much sense for Android to be exlusive to one phone and/or one carrier, one version, one unified platform - because it would completely dissolve their "open development" platform. Also, phones like the G1 which is the original Android phone, wouldn't be able to handle 2.0 like the DROID does. So that's why it took a few weeks for other Android phones to receive updates. The iPhone is one phone, one network, one OS version. Android is across multiple carriers, phone manufactures. Rethink the logic of your statements.
@OCJP: Uh, Google just defecated all over your logic with the Googlephone.